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First Chrome OS Notebooks Due This Month

Posted by timothy on from the sooner-the-better dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "According to recent reports, a Google-branded Chrome OS notebook will be launched by Inventec later this month. Acer and HP will be launching theirs a month later, in December. This report is also backed by a source close to Google stating that the company is still on track to launch its Chrome OS by the end of the year, as well as its Chrome app store."

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  1. Re:I don't think this will compete directly with i by cacba · · Score: 5, Informative

    Gears or HTML5 allow for offline use of apps that will sync with the cloud once reconnected. Gears has been used in google docs for years.

    To me the advantage of Chrome OS is an easy, cheap, secure computer. It would be great for my parents who seem to get a incredible amount of viruses just from browsing the web. Granted it wont replace their current PC.

  2. Re:I don't think this will compete directly with i by hitmark · · Score: 4, Informative

    Google (google gears) and Mozilla (prism?) experimented with such a offline layer some time ago for normal browsers, and such a offline cache is part of the HTML5 spec. They have also included a file manager and media player, iirc.

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  3. Hey, clueless newbies, this isn't 1999 by yelvington · · Score: 5, Informative

    Every time there's a Slashdot post about ChromeOS there's immediately a rush of posts complaining that it won't work offline.

    Slashdot is supposed to be news for nerds, not recent history for nerds ... but SOME OF YOU GUYS ARE NOT PAYING ATTENTION. Listen up.
    This is not 1999. You can come out of your bunker now.

    Google introduced offline Web functionality in in 2007. Google Docs supported Google Gears, which made it possible to use the Google word processor on an airplane with no network connection at all. I've done it. It worked fine. When I reconnected, everything synchronized with the cloud.

    This concept has been reworked and is a part of the HTML5 standard. See http://www.w3.org/TR/offline-webapps/

    In 2010-2011, you can write highly functional applications using HTML5 and Javascript, make them installable on your web browser, and have them work offline. Please stop assuming the Web is as it was when you were in junior high.